The entire Eighth grade,including the teachers, has been thinking about going on a field trip to a very amazing and educational place. We have been thinking about going on a field trip to the Lava Beds National Monument, but to do this we would need your approval which I hope we will receive after I give you the in depth details of the educational values we would indulge in on this trip. On this field trip we would learn about the history of the formation of the lava beds, we would get to explore the caves and see how remarkable they are, and finally we would learn safety tactics for exploring underground caves.
The Lava Beds National Monument is a series of underground caves which are sometimes referred to as lava tubes that have formed over the course of history. These caves as stated in the paragraph,"Formed from a variety of volcanic eruptions that occurred over the last half million years." Just think of how many volcanic eruptions must have happened over the past half million years for as stated in the paragraph"700 caves" to form. Also another interesting fact about the Lava Beds National Monument is that "The majority of the landscape of Lava Beds National Monument was once covered with lava." This means that for a long period of time all of the beautiful underground caves that are available to be explored today were just covered up with sizzling hot lava. Now I do not know if I am speaking for my self here, but that is a huge amount of interesting history that I think a lot of kids would like to know about. …show more content…
While at the park we would get to take"guided tours of the park,hike along scenic trails, climb cinder cones, and learn about the natural volcanoes and high dessert in northern